Will Ghislaine Maxwell Speak Publicly, Next Russiagate Docs, Mamdani's Wedding Bash： AM Update 7⧸28
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Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell meets with the DOJ as questions surface about a potential pardon in exchange for further cooperation. CIA Director John Ratcliffe teases that more declassified documents relating to how the 2016 Russian election narrative took off implicating Hillary Clinton. And New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani throws an elaborate wedding bash overseas with military-style security, raising eyebrows and accusations of hypocrisy.
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It's Monday, July 28th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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She was asked maybe about 100 different people.
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Jeffrey Epstein Associate Galen Maxwell meets with the DOJ as questions surface
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about a potential pardon in exchange for further cooperation.
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What that intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan,
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but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier.
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe teases that more declassified documents relating to
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how the 2016 Russian interference narrative took off are on the way,
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And New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist,
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throws an elaborate wedding bash overseas with military-style security,
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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell
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sitting with the DOJ for a two-day interview late last week,
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sharing knowledge with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
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about other potential uncharged Epstein associates.
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sharing some details of the meeting with reporters on Friday.
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She didn't say, you know what, don't ask me that.
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She was asked maybe about a hundred different people.
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Maxwell currently serving a 20-year prison sentence
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and her own misconduct is currently appealing her conviction.
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ABC News reporting Maxwell answered questions for about nine hours
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after being granted a limited form of immunity for her cooperation.
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On Friday morning, President Trump brushing off the question.
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Would you consider a pardon or a commutation for Heelan-Maxwell?
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Maxwell's attorney saying the prospect of a pardon
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while they consider potentially testifying before Congress next month.
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She's been in very difficult conditions for five years.
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We haven't spoken to the president or anybody about a pardon just yet.
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the president this morning said he had the power to do so.
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We hope he exercises that power in the right and just way.
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We have to make a decision about whether she will do that or not.
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And that's been scheduled for the week of August 11th,
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and we haven't gotten back to them yet on whether we'll do that.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson managing calls from within-house ranks
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to take further action in relation to the Epstein files,
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sharing his stance on any potential pardon for Maxwell.
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Well, I mean, obviously that's a decision of the president.
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And if you're asking my opinion, I think 20 years was a pittance.
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I think she should have a life sentence at least.
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And as you noted earlier, probably 1,000 victims.
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I mean, you know, this is, it's hard to put into words how evil this was
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and that she orchestrated it and was a big part of it,
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at least under the criminal sanction, I think is an unforgivable thing.
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So, again, not my decision, but I have great pause about that as any reasonable person would.
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Various House factions currently pursuing multiple avenues in obtaining the Epstein files from the DOJ.
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A House Oversight Subcommittee last week approving a subpoena requesting the files,
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though Chairman Comer has yet to take further action in actually issuing that subpoena.
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A source close to the committee telling us at AM Update
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that details on the scope of the subpoena will soon be released.
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Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Democrat Congressman Roe Khanna of California
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spearheading a bipartisan effort to force a vote legally compelling the DOJ
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with redactions protecting victims' information and removing child sexual abuse material.
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Speaker Johnson Sunday on NBC saying the Massey-Kanna discharge petition is flawed.
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Because you have to protect innocent people's names and reputations
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whose names might be, as you noted at the outset of the program, intertwined into all these files.
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The Massey and Khanna discharge petition would require the DOJ and FBI to release information
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that they know is false, that is based on lies and rumors,
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and was not even credible enough to be entered into the court proceedings.
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Our main concern here, though, is the protection of the innocent victims.
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I mean, these are minors in many cases who are subjected to unspeakable crimes, abject evil.
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The Massey and the Khanna discharge petition does not have adequate protections.
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they cite that they don't want child abuse, sex abuse information uncovered,
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but they cite the wrong provision of the federal code, and so it makes it unworkable.
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It requires the DOJ to release grand jury testimony.
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Congressman Khanna Sunday on NBC downplaying those concerns.
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Now, there's a reason the Justice Department usually doesn't release information
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before charging people, and I understand the sensitivity of that.
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They're going to be able to distinguish between someone who got a grant from
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versus rich and powerful men who were abusing underage girls.
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they believe they will have the support needed to bring the vote following this August recess.
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I think when we get back, we can get the signatures required to force this to the floor.
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Speaker Mike Johnson should do the right thing and just bring it to the floor
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Congressman Khanna, I'm out of time, but yes or no, will it pass?
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Calls for accountability growing amid bombshell declassifications by Director of National
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Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard over the past several weeks.
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A newly declassified 2020 House Intelligence Committee report reigniting scrutiny of the
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Obama administration's role in shaping the Russian interference narrative that dominated
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DNI gabbard last week releasing the long-buried report finding top intel officials used flawed
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and selectively filtered intel to construct the President Obama-directed 2017 Intelligence
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That report famously, and perhaps infamously, claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin,
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quote, aspired to help then-candidate Trump win the presidency in 2016.
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Sunday on Fox News, CIA Director John Ratcliffe saying the agency is working to declassify
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more documents that will reveal cooperation between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the
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Obama administration's FBI to boost the bogus Steele dossier.
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Part of what came out last week was about how John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they all pushed
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the known fake Steele dossier into intelligence community assessments and as the basis for
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But what hasn't come out yet and what's going to come out is the underlying intelligence that
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I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification and sent that to
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the Department of Justice that will come out in the John Durham report classified annex.
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And what that intelligence shows, Maria, is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but
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part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia
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collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and bearing the truth of
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These revelations renewing calls for accountability from Trump allies, with demands to investigate
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and prosecute those involved for what DNI Gabbard calls a, quote, years-long coup against
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But questions remain about what, if anything, can still be prosecuted given the statute of
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John Brennan testified to John Durham in August of 2020.
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He also testified to the House Oversight Committee in 2022.
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Hillary Clinton testified before John Durham under oath in 2022.
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James Comey testified before the Senate Committee in September 2020.
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And much of that testimony is, frankly, completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence
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that is about to be declassified in the Durham annex, what that reflects.
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And so, you know, Pam Bondi does have a strike force.
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It is a different Department of Justice, a different FBI, and an opportunity to look at
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how these people really did conspire to run a hoax, a fraud on the American people and against
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And so coming forward, we understand that they did this, but now we need to understand how
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Former head of the House Intel Committee, Devin Nunes, who ordered the 2020 Intel report
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analyzing the ICA, on Sunday telling Fox News there is no statute of limitations on conspiracy.
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All of these hoaxes that happened were done by the same people in many cases, and one led
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I mean, Mueller and that team, that team of witch hunters should also be looked at everything
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Because there was no intelligence that tied Trump to Russia.
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We get this fake whistleblower from inside the agencies that says that Trump's doing something
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All of that, all of that is happening with, with basically the same two dozen people and
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media operatives that are all involved in perpetuating, perpetuating these hoaxes.
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Coming up, defund for thee, security for me, New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani,
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who previously called for defunding the police, raises eyebrows with a luxurious wedding bash
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Far-left Socialist Democrat nominee for New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani taking a short break
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from the campaign last week to celebrate his new marriage with friends and family in his
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The radical progressive appearing to try to get ahead of the story last week, posting this
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And since you will undoubtedly read about this trip in the New York Post, inshallah on the
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front page, here are a few of my humble suggestions for headlines.
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The New York Post indeed reporting on the trip, discovering the candidate who previously called
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for defunding the police, hosted a, quote, lavish, three-day affair at his family's ritzy, secluded
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Ugandan compound, complete with masked security guards and a cell phone jamming system.
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The property reportedly sitting in a wealthy neighborhood with homes easily valued at more
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than a million dollars and at least one billionaire neighbor.
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You know, the kind Mamdani says he doesn't believe should exist.
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According to the Post, the Mamdani family, quote, sits on two acres of lush gardens, surrounded
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by trees, has breathtaking panoramic views of Lake Victoria, and features at least three
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The report raising eyebrows given Mamdani's past support for abolishing private property
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As a mayoral candidate, Mamdani somewhat softening that stance, focusing on other promises like
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In terms of policing, Mamdani kind of backing off calls to defund, though proposing a Department
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of Community Safety, he says, will be tasked with dispatching social workers to address nonviolent
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crimes and problems with the mentally ill and homeless.
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He apparently does not consider domestic violence to be, um, violent because those calls, too,
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From his former Democratic primary opponent, the disgraced former governor of New York,
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Andrew Cuomo, who's now running as an independent in the mayoral race.
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Cuomo's social media team posting a poll on X responding to the New York Post exclusive,
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asking whether to call the hypocrisy champagne socialism or trust fund socialism.
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